Miles beneath the ocean there are numerous sunken lands just waiting to be discovered. How did these lost lands form, and ...

The concepts of continents have confused people from their very beginning. Today I try to see if I can do any better at ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

In 2024, ocean temperatures reached record highs, worsening extreme weather and threatening ecosystems due to accelerating global warming. A recent study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences ...

If true, this would dramatically change our understanding of continental drift and the dynamic nature of Earth's tectonic plates. New study could redefine Earth’s continents and change global maps ...

Breaking up is hard to do, but one of the world's continents is going through the difficult process even if it's going to take a lot of time. While the current maps of the world are fairly ...

Ed Blank, former critic and reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, passed away Wednesday at 81. No immediate cause of death is known, though he had been in ill health for some time ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the ...